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MENTAL HEALTH

Falsified Medical Records Used to Commit DC Patients, According to New Litigation

A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”

MENTAL HEALTH

One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

MENTAL HEALTH

Thomas Kingston’s Antidepressant-Induced Suicide Still Haunts the UK Psychiatric Industry

A year ago and without warning, the husband of King Charles’ second cousin shot himself in the head after taking psychotropic drugs. The fallout continues as the government makes excuses. 

MENTAL HEALTH

UN Demands “Human Rights–Based Approach” to Mental Health

Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for urgent change.

MENTAL HEALTH

Florida’s Baker Act Leaves Trail of Harm for Involuntarily Committed Veterans

The ease of being involuntarily committed under Florida law discourages many veterans from seeking help. Jordan Hunkin’s suicide is a too-common outcome.

MENTAL HEALTH

Scotland’s Skye House Psych Hospital for Children Is a Horror House of Abuse

Forced drugging, restraint of patients, brutality, cruelty, mockery and abuse were recently dragged out into the open by a startling BBC documentary.

MENTAL HEALTH

Young & Old Show Grave Side Effects From Use of Antidepressants

Dementia and sexual dysfunction, often persisting for years, is the legacy of the psychiatric death industry and its practice of drugging everyone for everything. 

MENTAL HEALTH

Pfizer-Exec-Turned-FDA-Exec Patrizia Cavazzoni Turns Pfizer Exec Again 

As an FDA executive, Cavazzoni handed Pfizer, her former employer, a record-setting number of approved drugs in one year. And now she’s back. There’s a reason they call it the “revolving door.”

MENTAL HEALTH

America Finally Gets the Memo: SSRIs & Other Psychiatric Drugs Kill

A new government commission will evaluate the deadly threat of psychotropic drugs. They’ll discover exactly what the Church of Scientology has been saying for years. 

MENTAL HEALTH

CCHR Testifies to Curb “Psychiatric Youth Transport” aka Child Abduction

Called “gooning,” the abduction of children for forcible psychiatric incarceration is an outrage that must end, and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is leading the fight.

MENTAL HEALTH

Now They’re Beating the Kids—Abuse of Children at UK Psychiatric Facility Exposed

A new report reveals that staff at Cygnet Joyce Parker Hospital sadistically dragged children to put them in needless restraints—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

MENTAL HEALTH

Colorado Psych Hospital With Checkered Past Closed for Second Time

Fraud, substandard care and pure greed mark the deplorable history of Johnstown Heights Behavioral Health. The community says good riddance.

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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa

Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.

MENTAL HEALTH

Poisoned Justice

The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Blunder in the Brain

Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”